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Cravath Announces Bonuses -- Now The 2019 Bonus Season Can Really Begin
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.24.19
* During an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” President Trump falsely claimed that he “inherited” the policy of separating children from their parents at the border from President Obama, and later went on to defend the conditions that migrant children are being detained in, saying, “We’re doing a fantastic job under the circumstances.” [NBC News]
* The Supreme Court will soon be ending its October 2018 term, and there are still a dozen controversial cases yet to be decided. Which eagerly awaited ruling(s) will be released today? [Reuters]
* “So many D.C. lawyers are actors at heart. This is the drama of our time.” The Mead Center for American Theater is planning an 11-hour dramatic reading of the Mueller report. Several lawyers have signed up to read, but we wonder who will get to say Don McGahn’s famous lines. [National Law Journal]
* One woman may have settled her sex discrimination claims against Jones Day, but another just joined the gender bias class-action against the firm, bringing the total number of plaintiffs to eight. [Big Law Business]
* Cravath partners: They’re just like us! Damaris Hernández, who became the first Latina partner at Cravath in 2016, got her own profile piece on how she spends her Sundays published in the paper of record this weekend. [New York Times]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.30.19
* Cravath closing in on an office move, potentially returning the firm to civilization after years on 8th Avenue. [New York Law Journal]
* The moral of the story is: if you’re going to pretend to be a lawyer, have a name that’s easy to spell. [KMOV]
* The blockchain and cryptocurrency industries are begging for some regulatory guidance but what they’re getting instead is about as empty and worthless as a cryptocurrency. [Corporate Counsel]
* Kirkland hires a new “director of well-being.” That seems like a great gesture but if that person can’t initiate core changes to the law firm model this doesn’t seem like much of a solution. Thankfully, Kirkland employees are already pretty satisfied. [American Lawyer]
* The intellectual property tussle over Iron Man’s suit continues. [Law360]
* Across the pond, Boris Johnson is facing prosecution over his Brexit shenanigans. Here’s an explainer. [Legal Cheek]
* Julian Assange too sick for court. [NBC News]
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Biglaw
Holy Crap! Cravath Had A REALLY Busy Couple Of Weeks In Mergers & Acquisitions
$100 billion in deals in two weeks is impressive AF. -
Biglaw
Elite Biglaw Firm Holds True To Commitment To Elevate Women To Partnership Ranks
Isn't it time for the rest of Biglaw to honor women in this way? -
Biglaw
When Cravath Is A Footnote In Your Biography
This former Cravath attorney went on to bigger and better things. -
Biglaw
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.30.18
* Trump says he will end the Fourteenth Amendment by executive order. This is your Andrew Jackson-John Marshall moment right here. Thankfully, he probably knows he can’t do this and is just ranting in a desperate bid to energize a racist base to turn out for the Midterms. That’s actually what passes for “thankfully” these days. [CNN]
* Milwaukee judge puts defense attorney in chains for defending his client. The American justice system of 2018 is cruising along swimmingly. [Journal-Sentinel]
* GCs making a lot more money to tell outside counsel that they can’t afford the bills. [Corporate Counsel]
* …Of course our client was planning to bomb people, but that was if Hillary Clinton had won, so, in a sense, Trump saved all these potential victims! [Huffington Post]
* Judicial Conference hearing testimony today about reforming the judiciary to address sexual misconduct. This should be a powerful meeting that results in lackluster reform. [National Law Journal]
* Florida prosecutors are challenging the constitutionality of the state’s “Stand Your Ground” law for forcing them to try self-defense claims without a jury. Too bad we couldn’t have had this challenge several years ago. [Miami Herald]
* Cravath on the outside looking in when its long-time client embarked on its biggest software acquisition ever. [American Lawyer]
* New York judge rules that daily fantasy games are gambling because this stupid battle will never end. [Law360]
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Biglaw
Former Federal Judge Who Unexpectedly Left The Bench Returns To Biglaw
She left the bench for 'personal reasons,' and headed home to Biglaw. -
Biglaw
Biglaw Suffers Huge Blow In Malpractice Case Against Horrible Person
Expert testimony dominates most malpractice suits. Why not legal malpractice suits?
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Courts
Breaking: S.D.N.Y. Judge Katherine Forrest Is Leaving The Bench
She may only be 54, but she's retiring this year citing personal reasons. -
Biglaw
Are You There Cravath? It's Me, Milbank.
Where this raise goes from here is in one firm's hands. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.30.18
* Guess which Biglaw firm has decided to bring back on-campus recruiting for its summer associate program? Here’s a hint: You’re going to need a pair of flip flops. We’ll have more on this later today. [American Lawyer]
* With an estimated $11 million annual salary, Sandra Goldstein, who recently left Cravath for Kirkland & Ellis, may be the highest paid female partner in all of Biglaw. You go, girl! [The Careerist]
* Speaking of female Biglaw partners, Bracewell partner Barbara Jones’s $700 per hour rate as special master in the review of materials seized from Michael Cohen’s office has added up to a pretty YUGE bill for just one week’s worth of work: $47,390. [New York Law Journal]
* The Justice Department approved a merger between Bayer and Monsanto, but only after the companies agreed to dump $9 billion in business assets. “Today’s news makes it clear that our antimonopoly laws are completely worthless,” said one farm group that’s just thrilled by the news. [Washington Post]
* Eduardo M. Peñalver, the first Latino dean of an Ivy League law school, has been reappointed to a second five-year term as dean of Cornell Law after achieving quite a few milestones for employment and bar pass rates at the school. [Cornell Chronicle]
* Briana Williams, a single mother who requested an epidural while she was in labor so her contractions wouldn’t interfere with her completion of a final exam, recently graduated from Harvard Law School. Much respect from one law mama to another. Congratulations and best of luck in all that you do! [Yahoo!]
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Biglaw
Lawyerly Lairs: A Pioneering Cravath Partner's $8 Million Aerie
Christine Beshar was Cravath's first woman partner -- and also very, very rich. -
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 04.29.18
* Kirkland & Ellis raiding Cravath is now officially “a thing”; it’s been covered in the newspaper of record. [New York Times]
* Extension requests: not just for law school papers, but for cert petitions too (and there’s no shame in seeking them; they’re often requested by prominent practitioners). [Empirical SCOTUS]
* Want to talk intelligently about the Michael Cohen
messcase with your friends? Start by reading this primer on “privileged” versus “confidential” client communications, by Joel Cohen (no relation) and Dale Degenshein. [Law and Crime]* Boycotts have a venerable history in terms of the law and the First Amendment — but they might be losing their effectiveness in the digital age, as noted media lawyer Charles Glasser explains. [Daily Caller]
* Eugene Volokh flags this interesting issue (and opinion): under what circumstances does denying a felon the right to own a gun violate the Second Amendment? [Reason / Volokh Conspiracy]
* Has the whole “emotional support animal” phenomenon gone too far at Yale? [Yale Daily News via Instapundit]
David Lat is editor at large and founding editor of Above the Law, as well as the author of Supreme Ambitions: A Novel. He previously worked as a federal prosecutor in Newark, New Jersey; a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; and a law clerk to Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. You can connect with David on Twitter (@DavidLat), LinkedIn, and Facebook, and you can reach him by email at dlat@abovethelaw.com.
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Biglaw
Lawyers Apparently Perform This Weird Ritual During Cravath Partner Funerals
Do lawyers at your firm perform any strange death rituals during funerals?